Thinkpads Forum

I recently got an X60s and came to find that the service partition is 13gb, way bigger than the 4 or 5gb that I'm used to on thinkpads. Does anyone have a similar situation with their x60 and/or know the reasoning for the expansion?
Also, I was trying to make recovery media through thinkvantage software and everytime I try, it just burns around 383MB worth of data and says that it's done. What happened to the other 12.6GB?

what are you using to write the CD's when making a recovery CD set..?

FWIW, i used a plextor 716 in an external box and rarely made a full CD and NEVER made a complete recovery set..
(i DID manage to make Disc several times but never finished either a follow-on DVD or CD..

finally called and got a recovery CD set sent to me..
the guy observed that using a non-ibm (lenovo) external CD drive on an X60 was a bit of a gamble..
a gamble unless the production of drink coasters is the main goal..

You just saved me from making coasters, Bill!

I have the same DVDRW, the Plextor 716UF (mine was built to be external), and I WILL be getting an X60s sometime soon. Glad to know that it's better to just call IBM and get the disks than fight with a "non IBM" drive.

By the way, can I get the R&R disks as a CD+DVD set? Or does IBM ONLY ship CDs?

I was using the built in ultrabase drive and it still wouldn't give me a full restore set. Anyway, I ended up getting IBM to just send me the CDs for free.